Woke up and was generally unhappy about having to race at 11:30. Unfortunately, I'll have to race around the same time for both districts and state, so I will use KingCo and Districts to learn. Ran a 1 mile shakeout run in the morn like 8 minutes after I emerged from my lair. Proceeded home to eat breakfast of rice mixed with egg, sausage, and miniscule bits of bacon. After eating, I promptly returned to my lair and reengaged slumber mode for almost an hour. This was a bad idea. Apparently sleeping inhibits digestion, plus I was kinda tired when I awoke again. Nevertheless, I shook it off as we were waiting to warm up at the meet by not lying down, walking the course, and stretching out. Warmed up with the team, course was pretty soggy. My fingers started getting numb from the cold so I decided to wear gloves for the first race this season. First mile was 4:57 courtesy of Will taking it out hard. Tom sat right on us while I kept trying to get up even with Will, who kept speeding up. I then took the reigns at like 1.1ish miles and Will disengaged soon after. I could've done with better legs today, but then again I've been doing random hard stuff all week so I'll probably feel better when I dial it back. However, despite feeling a little sluggish today, I made it happen. Tom stayed with me after I took the lead the first time, and moved slightly ahead of me. I took it back at the sand and pushed it across there because the sand is usually difficult for people, but once again he took the lead from me. I noticed after one corner he rounded soon after his pace slowed so I took the lead a third time as we were fast approaching the 4k mark. This time I made separation. I got 8 seconds on him in the last 1k. I've definitely learned to fight harder through the ick should it arise on race day. Also, kudos to Tom for improvement, we came through the 2 mile split for the 5k today at 10:11, but when he ran the same 2 mile for the 2 mile Jamboree he was 10:18. Most of my teammates ran slow times today, but Joseph and Raymond really stepped it up. We won pretty handily. Excited for next week. Finished with a 1 mile cool down. Don't know why I cooled down cause I then did a 5 mile training run at 6:55s.
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